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sirdogealot
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Comment #8884224
>There's no support to reach out to This is my biggest fear when using anything Google-related. They are notoriously difficult to get in touch with, and as such I probably wouldn't…
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Comment #8233151
This really hit me recently when I left the house after doing some cryptography research. When I "locked" the wooden door with a piece of metal that has been photographed by probab…
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Comment #8213491
This isn't news. "The researchers also plan to develop a water splitter than runs on electricity produced by solar energy." Unfortunately that approach would be less efficient that…
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Comment #8124081
Looks great! But your "votes" section that I browsed seems to be listed rather oddly. Items seem to be listed randomly. They don't seem to be listed by title, date, number of votes…
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Comment #8087618
I remember clicking through those same pictures a few days back and I was under the impression that I was telling the observers what pictures I thought were more beautiful, not saf…
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Comment #7999691
They were in business for 40 years... and Google maps just recently started incorrectly listing their hours. I highly doubt that the google maps error caused or even contributed to…
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Comment #7975001
>They have been able to compromise certain Tor users in specific situations. Historically this has been done by finding an exploit for the Tor Browser Bundle or by exploiting a use…
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Comment #7969022
>The two techniques that most help me to fall asleep when I’m under pressure are to write down what’s on my mind (to get it off my mind) and to breathe deeply if I’m still staying …
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Ask HN: Why are there no programming books on Brainfuck?
Or am I missing the point? Is it meant to be just a hilariously difficult and esoteric language to learn? Just to say you know it?
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Comment #7963677
Bingo. Bang on. This is exactly what I meant.
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Comment #7963664
This website's UX is just amazing. There are at least 2, sometimes 3 suggestive links enticing you to view the next section of the single homepage. I must say, good show OCB. They …
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Comment #7954794
The willy report depicts whale buy bots that were buying large amounts of Bitcoin on a drip feed styled system. The "investigator" of the free willy report got it wrong.
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Comment #7954775
The willy report was quickly debunked as being FUD. Those bots were just the dark pool bots that larger players paid Mt Gox to buy large amounts of Bitcoin on a drip feed system ov…
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Comment #7936086
What's so fake about it? Completing a list of criteria and scoring well on standardized tests is pretty much all that qualifies somebody for a "degree" from any one of our current …
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Comment #7921224
Satoshi planned for this 51% mining attack problem, and so far we're ok. His premise was that if a miner ever grew so large as to be capable of performing a 51% attack, that they w…
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Comment #7919759
I remember ebay consignment stores that existed locally years ago. They took on the order of 50-60% of the total sale price. It was a horrible deal, and every single one I knew of …
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Comment #7919363
I agree completely. For myself, it's more the fact that newaccountfool felt the need to ask permission to ask a question. I love asking questions. And I love answering them wheneve…
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Comment #7919288
It's probably something like an FCC compliance requirement. Does your hard drive provide pointless-something-random functionality that RSA/NSA thought up? No? Well it's not allowed…
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Comment #7919282
I really wish we could do away with the formalities involved when asking "what do you make?". It just seems so ancient. I have no problem telling anybody my average income and exac…
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Comment #7902773
I missed the part where Adams championed the pivot as the greatest business innovation of all time. He starts out the article rather casually: "You might be interested in some of t…
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Comment #7867055
If you're wanting to accomplish this on your desktop/laptop... check out Arch Linux: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MAC_Address_Spoofing Every single time my laptop boots up,…
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Comment #7844146
But when displaying the cleartext of a previously sent email or received email... they must be able to decipher the encrypted text in order to display it to the viewer, no?